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Good morning,
I have just installed arch on my compaq presario f500 laptop which has broadcom wireless and I cannot seem to sort out any internet connection at all. would someone be able to walk me through manually setting this up, I have read the wireless setup guide and beginners guide and am still lost. I believe the driver is installed ok I just have no idea what to do next.
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I notice this below looks like a very similar machine to yours
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indeed, although I can't connect to anything.
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would anyone be able to clarify step 5 in the wireless setup wiki, under the broadcom entry?
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have you added the module in /etc/rc.conf?
MODULES=(bcm43xx)
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bcm43xx need firmware and doesn't work very well. i use ndiswrapper and works flawless
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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what was you're output from sudo hwd -s, the network part of mine looks like the following? I have no wired connetion, wireless only.
Ethernet : No ethernet card or onboard chip
Network : BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller module: bcm43xx
also output from
sudo iwconfig
[sykesm@plamuk etc]$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"my_essid" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:11:14:E4:41:E2
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:81CD-37AC-60 Security mode:open
Link Quality=65/100 Signal level=-66 dBm Noise level=-69 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:51 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Last edited by sykesm (2008-02-10 12:36:21)
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hwd gives an unknown command error
iwconfig gives the same as what you posted but mine is called eth1 instead.
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is hwd installed?
if not
pacman -S hwd
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Just tried and get - package hwd not found in sync db error
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is you're machine connected to the internet i.e. have you got a wired connection working, and it's only you're wireless connection that's giving you problems?
if it is connected; do a "pacman -Sy" and then try "pacman -S hwd"
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I don't have any internet connection at all. I have an ethernet cable I can plug into my router, but I have no idea how to get it up and running.
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So let me get this straight. You can connect your laptop to your router but don't know how to setup the connection. If that's what you want then you just need to setup your /etc/rc.conf so that you have eth0="dhcp" and INTERFACES=(lo eth0). As long as ifconfig gives your ethernet connection as eth0 it should work. I use the bcm43xx on a T21 IBM laptop that I'm using right now and it works great. I use wifi-radar for my wireless management and it's fairly easy to setup.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
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ok, right. connected via ethernet, hwd and followed wireless setup instructions.
Im a little unsure of where I am at the moment, on bootup it tries to configure the network, waits and then timeouts. I can configure eth1 with iwconfig eth1 essid blah
iwconfig eth1 key s:blah
and then i try dhcpcd eth1, which times out
grateful for any ideas.
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Wireless madness? So I can remotely control you and press the "play" and "stop" button at the same time!
Have you gotten bcm43xx-fwcutter?
People say the kernel module works great these days. I wouldn't know, have been using ndiswrapper for a long time already
I need real, proper pen and paper for this.
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WTF! you must be on some good shit, and yes I got the cookie cutter.
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